Title :
ICFHR 2012 Competition on Handwritten Document Image Binarization (H-DIBCO 2012)
Author :
Pratikakis, Ioannis ; Gatos, Basilis ; Ntirogiannis, Konstantinos
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Abstract :
H-DIBCO 2012 is the International Document Image Binarization Competition which is dedicated to handwritten document images organized in conjunction with ICFHR 2012 conference. The objective of the contest is to identify current advances in handwritten document image binarization using meaningful evaluation performance measures. This paper reports on the contest details including the evaluation measures used as well as the performance of the 24 submitted methods along with a short description of each method.
Keywords :
document image processing; handwriting recognition; image recognition; performance evaluation; H-DIBCO 2012; ICFHR 2012 competition; ICFHR 2012 conference; International Document Image Binarization Competition; handwritten document image binarization; performance evaluation measures; Clustering algorithms; Distortion measurement; Educational institutions; Filtering algorithms; Image edge detection; Informatics; PSNR; binarization; handwritten document image; performance evaluation;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bari
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2262-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICFHR.2012.216
